Video: Urban ReLeaf Mentors

Video: Tara Luna

Video: Richard Keigley

Video: Marcus Webster

Video: Kevin Jefferson

Video: Kemba Shakur

Video: Karen Roothan

Humanities Seminars in Science Museums

Exhibition: Greenhouse Earth

Exhibition: Wild Music

Book: A Lifetime of Curiosity

Book: Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions

Book: The Convivial Museum

Video: Love Takes Root

Video: Felicia Pulliam

Video: Lesley Hoffarth

Video: Rosalyn LaPier

About

Wendy Pollock is a Chicago-based writer, gardener, citizen forester, and environmental advocate. She works with community organizations and educational projects to raise awareness and encourage informed action on behalf of a more just and sustainable world.

During many years with the science center movement, she developed national partnerships and led public outreach and communication efforts on topics ranging from global warming to the biological origins of music. The traveling exhibition Greenhouse Earth, the nation’s first to address the science of climate change, opened in 1992. Later, she led the start-up of the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) and community website ExhibitFiles. She coauthored The Convivial Museum and other books and served as editor of the Journal of Museum Education.

Recently, Wendy served as director of community engagement for a multi-faceted media project called The Truth About Trees, working with journalist Anna Hiatt to produce a series of video stories in collaboration with urban and community forestry groups nationwide. As a TreeKeeper, she works with neighbors to help care for Evanston’s urban forest and natural areas.